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Aside from laptops (not that I wouldn't like to build my own), I've only had one store-bought PC, and it was, without a doubt, one heck of a POS.
Compaq Presario 3114
16 MB RAM
P1 133
Built-in video & sound
It was very awful, because it was all proprietary, and it took 30 minutes to take out the CD-ROM drive. That, and the fact that it costs too much, and you have to jump through the hoops in order to not get stuck with Windows XP home, or *shudder* ME and a four-year contract for MSN internet access and an overpriced monitor and speakers and unnecessary hard drive, CD-ROM, and DVD drives, and they try to pre-load all the unnecesary software they can trick you into buying, thus making it really difficult to set things the way I want them, is why I don't like brand-name computers.
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